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Afro-Cuba, yesterday & today.

Title: Afro-Cuba, yesterday & today.
Publication: New York, NY : ArtMattan Productions ; Chicago, IL : Distributed by Facets Video, [2008]

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Description

2 videodiscs (53 min., 79 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

The last rumba of Papa Montero: A mockumentary film-within-in-a-film, exploring the life and mysterious death of the great rumba drummer Pap̀ Montero, assassinated during carnival. Interviews with various people are interspersed with song and dance numbers as a filmcrew makes a biopic about the famed musician, coming in contact with mysterious forces. Afro-Cuban mythology serves as the common force behind the characters as the story begins to involve odd omens and the orishas, spirit divinities of the Afro-Cuban Yoruba faith, who are supposedly guiding the characters to their fates.
Where is Sara Gomez? is a rich, multilayered documentary about Afro-Cuban director Sarah Gomez. Born in 1943, she studied literature, piano, and Afro-Cuban ethnography before becoming the first female Cuban filmmaker. A woman of great intelligence, independence and generosity, she was a revolutionary filmmaker with intersecting concerns about the Afro-Cuban community and the value of its cultural traditions, women's issues, and the treatment of the marginalized sectors of society. Through archival footage of her works and interviews with her children and husband Germinal Hernandez, cast members of her best-know film De cierta manera, as well as colleagues and friends, we get closer to a filmmaker who invented new landscapes and brought together opposite worlds.

Uniform Title

Ultima rumba de Papá Montero (Motion picture)
Donde está Sara Gómez? (Motion picture)

Alternative Title

Afro-Cuba, yesterday and today
Last rumba of Papa Montero.
Sara Gomez, an Afro-Cuban filmmaker.

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Genre/Form

Feature films.
Documentary-style films.
Documentary films.
Biographical films.

Note

The last rumba of Papa Montero originally produced as a feature film in 1991.
Sara Gómez : an Afro-Cuban filmmaker originally produced as a documentary film in 2005.
Title from container.

Credits (note)

The last rumba of Papa Montero: screenwriters, Eduardo Vázquez, Octavio Cortázar, Pedro Betancourt ; cinematographers, Luis García Mesa, Julio Valdés ; editor, Ricardo Miranda ; choreographers, Manuel García Micler, Ana Luisa Cáceres ; ICAIC and RFO Martinique
Sara Gómez, an Afro-Cuban filmmaker: producer, Tiziana Soudani ; screenwriter, Alessandra Müller ; cinematographer, Fulvio Mariani ; composer, Gabriel A. Scotti ; editor, Samuela Rinaldi ; Amka Films with RTSI Televisione Svizzera and Iceberg Films.

System Details (note)

DVD, NTSC ; full screen presentation.

Language (note)

The last rumba of Papa Montero: Spanish dialogue; with English subtitles.
Sara Gómez: Chiefly in Spanish, with some French; with English subtitles.

Contents

La última rumba de Papá Montero = The last rumba of Papa Montero / directed by Octavio Cortázar (53 min.)
¿Donde está Sara Gómez? = Sara Gómez : an Afro-Cuban filmmaker / directed by Alessandra Müller (79 min.)

Call Number

Sc Visual DVD-2039

ISBN

1565808088
9781565808089

LCCN

736899121327

OCLC

299175691

Title

Afro-Cuba, yesterday & today.

Imprint

New York, NY : ArtMattan Productions ; Chicago, IL : Distributed by Facets Video, [2008]

Country of Producing Entity

Cuba. Martinique.

Type of Content

two-dimensional moving image

Type of Medium

video

Type of Carrier

videodisc

Performer

The last rumba of Papa Montero: Sonia de la Caridad, Jorge Dixon, Johanes García y el Conjunto Folklorico Nacional de Cuba, René de la Cruz, Rafael Sosa, Carlos Cruz, Jorge Cao, Jorge Ryan, Etiane Alfonso, Cristobalina Arrieta, Alicia Santos, Carlos Embale, Candito Zayas, Teresa Poyedo, Luis Carbonell.

Sara Gómez, an Afro-Cuban filmmaker: Germinal Hernández (husband), Agnès Varda.

Credits

The last rumba of Papa Montero: screenwriters, Eduardo Vázquez, Octavio Cortázar, Pedro Betancourt ; cinematographers, Luis García Mesa, Julio Valdés ; editor, Ricardo Miranda ; choreographers, Manuel García Micler, Ana Luisa Cáceres ; ICAIC and RFO Martinique

Sara Gómez, an Afro-Cuban filmmaker: producer, Tiziana Soudani ; screenwriter, Alessandra Müller ; cinematographer, Fulvio Mariani ; composer, Gabriel A. Scotti ; editor, Samuela Rinaldi ; Amka Films with RTSI Televisione Svizzera and Iceberg Films.

System Details

DVD, NTSC ; full screen presentation.

Language

The last rumba of Papa Montero: Spanish dialogue; with English subtitles.

Sara Gómez: Chiefly in Spanish, with some French; with English subtitles.

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Added Author

Vázquez, Eduardo.

Cortázar, Octavio, 1935- film director.

Betancourt, Pedro.

Caridad, Sonia de la.

Dixon, Jorge.

Garcia, Johanes.

Cruz, René de la.

Müller, Alessandra, 1966- film director.

Soudani, Tiziana, film producer.

Scotti, Gabriel, composer.

Conjunto Folklórico Nacional (Cuba)

Instituto Cubano de Arte e Industria Cinematográfica.

RFO Martinica.

Amka Films Productions.

Radiotelevisione della Svizzera italiana.

Iceberg Films (Firm)

ArtMattan Productions.

Facets Video (Firm)

Added Title

Ultima rumba de Papá Montero (Motion picture)

Donde está Sara Gómez? (Motion picture)

Last rumba of Papa Montero.

Sara Gomez, an Afro-Cuban filmmaker.

Other Standard Identifier

736899121327

Publisher No.

DV97172 Facets Multimedia

Research Call Number

Sc Visual DVD-2039

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